Hollywood Hunter

Leaving the company headquarters of Girl B in downtown Greenwich, Simon and Girl A drove back to the manor in the northern suburbs together.

A black Bentley car was driving on the tarmac road in the vibrant suburbs in summer. Inside the carriage, Alison looked down and checked today’s work log to confirm that there was nothing missing. He turned to look at Simon, who was closing his eyes for a busy day, thinking. After thinking about it, he said: "Someone is pursuing B during this time."

Simon opened his eyes, smiled and asked, "Who?"

Seeing Simon’s uncompromising appearance, Alison also showed some smiles, and said with a little gossip: “A partner of the Long-Term Capital Management Company named Mark Shinar is a very powerful one. As an analyst, a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. John Meriwether led the team to leave Salomon Brothers last year. B tried to dig him over to be responsible for the development of Alia’s bond analysis model, but failed. Long-term Capital Management set up its headquarters at the beginning of the year Greenwich, through several meetings in some circles, Mark Shinar launched a pursuit of B last month."

Simon said: "The partner of LTCM, shouldn't he be young?"

Alison said: "31 years old."

ABCD started serving the Westeros family four years ago. He had just graduated from college at the time. Now he is 26 or 27 years old. The 31-year-old suitor is not a big one, let alone a highly anticipated hedge fund partner.

Simon nodded slightly, and then asked, "What is B's attitude, and, is that guy handsome?"

"B made it clear to Mark Shinar from the beginning that her career has just begun and she does not plan to fall in love in the short term. However, the other party did not give up. During this time, she would pass by the B company headquarters to give her a gift every morning. A bunch of flowers." Alison said here, paused, and then said: "No boss is handsome, but he is taller than the boss. It is said that he was a basketball player when he was in school."

Simon said: "Yes, B is not young anymore. You can try to get along with the other party. As long as you arrange your time properly, it's okay. I don't think they will be too free during the two weekdays. Instead, this kind of life rhythm It will appear to fit well."

Alison blinked when Simon said this, "Boss, don't you really mind?"

Simon smiled and said: "Of course, mind, but it's more like the feeling that my daughter was abducted by a bad boy. Although I must be an evil villain in your heart, but for you, as long as you can find a suitable partner. , I will bless you."

Alison felt the man’s sincere tone. Hearing him say that he is the evil villain, he couldn’t help but curl his mouth: "I will tell B the boss’s words."

Simon said: "And you too, get married sooner, and I can change to a younger and more beautiful assistant."

The man had a disgusting tone, but Girl A's smile remained undiminished. She moved her body and leaned forward, leaning her head on Simon's shoulder: "Boss, you, really like that kind of, eh, PLAY?"

Simon pretended to be puzzled: "What?"

Alison said: "On Monday night in Columbus, I slept next to the boss."

Simon said in a bad tone: "It seems that I am going to take down the villa in Columbus and rebuild it. The soundproofing is too bad.

If a man wants to demolish a villa, Alison will definitely help carry it out without hesitation, no matter how much the house is worth, but at this time she was still explained in a crooked manner: "Because the balcony, boss, you forgot to close the French windows. Up."

The villa on the outskirts of Columbus is a two-story European-style building with a full masonry structure, and the sound insulation effect is far better than that of a wooden building. However, the rooms on the upper floor basically have a balcony with a view. If the French windows leading to the balcony are not closed in the two adjacent bedrooms, it is quiet at night, and some noises are easily transmitted to the next door.

When Simon heard the words, he stretched out his hand to catch the girl's delicate chin and squeezed, and said, "It seems that you didn't close the balcony. You need to punish you when you take the time."

Hearing the word'punishment', Alison's breathing suddenly became a bit short, raising his hand to hold the man's big hand that he wanted to take back and hug him in front of him, but instead of mentioning the matter just now, he turned to: "Boss, you Don’t seem to like long-term capital management companies?"

Simon said: "How do you see it?"

Alison said: "At the beginning of the year, we had the opportunity to subscribe for LTCM's fund shares. Madam agreed, but you personally rejected the project."

Speaking of long-term capital management companies, in the past, people who are slightly interested in the financial industry can be said to be thrilling.

Of course, not a very good reputation.

The founder of Long-Term Capital Management, John Merriwether, was the hottest banker of the famous Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers in the 1970s and 1980s. This talented trader created the bond arbitrage model that is now popular throughout Wall Street.

At its peak, Meriwether's bond arbitrage team contributed more than half of the profits of Salomon Brothers, and Salomon Brothers became the most powerful investment bank on Wall Street.

However, after the outbreak of the scandal of Salomon Brothers’ illegal manipulation of the Treasury bond market in 1992, the investment bank began to fall apart. John Meriwether, who was in charge of the bond trading department, caused the scandal due to lax imperialism, leaving a large number of Solomon investors. The mess, even Buffett was pitted into it, but he himself left unscathed with his famous bond arbitrage team, and set up a long-term capital management company in February this year.

Relying on the brilliant performance in Salomon and the unique bond arbitrage model, long-term capital management companies have been highly sought after on Wall Street. Financial giants such as Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Bear Stearns and others have subscribed for the fund shares of this hedge fund, including many in Washington. Politicians have contacted John Merriwether through various contacts, hoping to participate in the investment of long-term capital management companies.

Even with a 25% profit margin exceeding the industry average and a series of other harsh conditions, the long-term capital management company easily raised the first $1.25 billion hedge fund in a short period of time and quickly started its own business.

Simon remembers that after the establishment of the Long-Term Capital Management Company, it has been a real success for several years. Since 1992, the annual fund return rate has exceeded 40%.

Then, all this came to an abrupt end in 1998.

Long-term capital management companies have the brightest minds in the world, including two Nobel Prize winners in economics. These people have created the world’s most advanced bond arbitrage model, through various types of bonds in different periods of time. The interest difference is short or long to obtain profit.

The use of bond spreads for arbitrage is different from stocks or futures, such as Treasury bills or corporate bonds, which have only a few percentage points of interest, so the change ratio is small after all. In order to expand profits, it is necessary to use tens or even hundreds of times leverage.

Moreover, the arbitrage model of long-term capital management companies is largely based on the complete rationality of the capital market, and does not take into account extreme market conditions such as the 87 stock market crash.

In 1998, Russia's domestic economy, which was affected by the 1997 financial turmoil, collapsed again, resulting in inability to repay billions of dollars in maturing national debt and had to declare debt default. The super black swan incident of sovereign state debt default quickly spread to the domino effect, causing the international bond market to plummet.

A few months before Russia announced its debt default, the market had already shown a downward trend.

The long-term capital management companies at that time believed that the bond market would recover in the second half of 1998 based on their own tried and tested analysis model, and they did not believe that a large sovereign country like Russia would completely abandon its international reputation and declare a debt default. Even if Russia is truly insolvent, in order to avoid sovereign debt defaults from spreading to the international bond market, other countries will often offer relief.

As a result, none of this happened.

In other words, the worst result that no one thinks will happen.

Russia defaulted on debt and the international bond market plummeted. The long-term capital management company, which was in the wrong direction, established a huge position of more than US$1 trillion with a principal of only more than US$4 billion, most of which were long positions. After the outbreak, the long-term capital management company went into liquidation at a loss in just one week.

However, this is only the beginning.

The long-term capital management company lost all its funds and still cannot make up for the continued losses caused by the huge position of this hedge fund.

If you leave it alone, you can only breach the contract.

Trillion-dollar-level hedging position defaults have even more catastrophic consequences than Russia’s debt defaults, which are enough to destroy the global financial system and even spread to the real economy, triggering a global depression again.

In order to avoid disaster, the Fed had to urgently mobilize all the financial giants on Wall Street to help the long-term capital management company clean up the mess.

In the end, in addition to the US$4.6 billion lost by the long-term capital management company itself, the Wall Street financial giants raised another US$3.6 billion, investing a total of US$8.2 billion in huge funds, which closed most of the dangerous positions and avoided a global financial The market crash occurred.

Simon recalled the information in his mind and said to Alison next to him: "The LTCM team believes too much in their own model and ignores the uncertainty of the capital market that far exceeds their imagination. Take the United States as an example, the federal stock market There will be at least one crash of varying sizes in ten years. I remember that in 1987, Solomon also reported that Meriwether’s bond trading department lost hundreds of millions of dollars a week, but they obviously did not learn their lesson. Not only that. Because of their past successes, they have also lost their awe of market risks. Sooner or later they will fail."

Alison thought for a moment, nodded in approval, remembering what happened to girl B just now, and said: "Boss, then you still let B and LTCM partners associate?"

Simon smiled and said, "These are two different things. In any case, those guys are a group of geniuses. And, didn't you mean that Mark Shinar is only 31 years old? While he is still young, he will experience some setbacks, and he will be more in the future. Steady, just like Lawrence Fink, because of the loss in the first Boston that year, no one in Cersei Capital now cares more about risk control than him. Otherwise, I would not rest assured that he is in charge of hundreds of billions of dollars. asset."

Alison lifted his head from Simon's shoulder to look at the man, and said, "Boss, your tone is really like, um, an old man."

Simon pretended to be dissatisfied: "Old man?"

Alison rested on Simon's shoulder again, and his mouth was close to the man's ear: "Boss, actually, I can do it too."

"Ok?"

Alison leaned a little closer and called out a name very boldly.

Simon: "￥#@@#￥"

After Alison yelled, his cheeks blushed quickly, and he found that his boss had a bigger reaction than him, and he was more courageous.

However, as soon as he was about to continue to blame, the luxury car had already entered the gate of the manor.

While driving towards the manor house, he pressed a certain goblin who was trying to make waves and suppressed it. Bentley stopped in front of the house. After getting out of the car, Lady A could only do her best to follow the man with her head down and after entering the villa. Disappeared soon.

In the villa, the Indian girl Aaliyah watched Lady A hurried upstairs, did not ask much, just greeted the man, and said, "Boss, Ms. Faisy is here in the afternoon, and Ms. Spurt is also taking the three. This young lady just came over and they are chatting in the living room."

With that said, Aaliyah stepped forward to take Simon's coat and followed the man to the living room on the side of the hall.

The living room is very lively.

In addition to Sophia Fissi and Grace Spoelt, there are three other beautiful girls in fashionable dresses. These are the three new Victoria's Secret angels selected by Simon from the list provided by Grace some time ago.

Seeing Simon enter the door, the women stopped talking and stood up together.

Simon did not shy away from first stepping forward to hug Sophia, and asked: "Aren't they all coming over on Friday?"

Sophia let go of Simon, and lovingly helped the man fold down the shirt collar that was unintentionally provoked when he just took off his jacket, and said, "I'm coming when I want to come. I'm not busy recently.

He gave the man a sideways glance.

If he didn't come, the little man would be ridiculous tonight again, and he called four women over at once.

Although Grace introduced herself as the agent of the three girls, Sophia could tell at a glance that this woman was obviously expecting someone to return home after the short waiting period.

Feeling Sophia’s anger and resentment, Simon could only smile at the woman. Seeing Grace approaching, he only planned to shake hands with her. Seeing that the other party approached with his arms slightly embarrassed, the woman was embarrassed and went with her. Hugged: "Good afternoon, Grace."

Just a simple hug, Grace Spoult still feels as if her heart has been gently squeezed, and the slight suffocation that seems to be addictive spreads quickly. In fact, I realized that the man had no intention to hug her just now, but he couldn't resist taking the initiative to get in.

He responded with a slight burning cheek, and then I remembered, and quickly introduced the three girls I had brought: "Simon, this is Qusi, and Eva, and Daniela."

Qusi Goff, Eva Herzigova, Daniela Psteva.

These are the three newly promoted Victoria's Secret Angels personally selected by Simon recently.

Even Qusi Gove, who attended the premiere of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" last month, only saw Simon from afar, and Simon did not attend the after-party after the premiere, so this time he was considered three girls. It was the first time I saw this legendary young super tycoon up close.

Although it was the first contact, during this time, the three women have deeply realized the ubiquitous and powerful influence of Simon Westero. From their original status and namelessness to now, they have received the attention of countless spotlights. Just because of this man's thoughts.

Therefore, when Grace suddenly arranged for them to have a medical examination a few days ago, and then directly ordered Simon Westeros to ask the three of them to come to accompany him tonight, the three girls never got up. How much resisted his mind and obeyed Grace's various arrangements.

Surrendering to the strong is also human genetic nature.

Perhaps many people will show all kinds of disdain for certain powerful figures in private, but there are absolutely very few who really face to face and dare to speak freely. Especially when these powerful figures hold the power that allows the person to step into heaven and then into **** in a flash, then all that remains is surrender.